a) a complete misunderstanding of how and why the ASF operates the way it does
or
b) a desire for sensationalist blog pieces with almost no factual content
The ASF is working with Git, it has been for years. It doesn't yet provide a canonical repository from which to make releases. This is due to a number of non-trivial technical issues introduced by the processes adopted by Apache projects.
The Apache infrastructure team believe that they have now solved those issues and are testing them in CouchDB. Assuming the CouchDB experiment is a success the ASF will be rolling out Git as the canonical repository to all projects that want it.
Once the ASF has mapped the tools to the processes we can all move on and stop wasting our time with this spurious argument.
Disclaimer: Unlike the author of this blog I do have access to all the discussions about Git in the ASF and I am one of the mentors of PhoneGap, a project mentioned in the article.
a) a complete misunderstanding of how and why the ASF operates the way it does
or
b) a desire for sensationalist blog pieces with almost no factual content
The ASF is working with Git, it has been for years. It doesn't yet provide a canonical repository from which to make releases. This is due to a number of non-trivial technical issues introduced by the processes adopted by Apache projects.
The Apache infrastructure team believe that they have now solved those issues and are testing them in CouchDB. Assuming the CouchDB experiment is a success the ASF will be rolling out Git as the canonical repository to all projects that want it.
Once the ASF has mapped the tools to the processes we can all move on and stop wasting our time with this spurious argument.
Disclaimer: Unlike the author of this blog I do have access to all the discussions about Git in the ASF and I am one of the mentors of PhoneGap, a project mentioned in the article.